Casing for shade rollers



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CASINY; FOR SHADE ROLLERS Filed Oct. 20. 1950 2 Sheets-Sheet l PHIL/P Mmwq c BY @2962.

wrmzss; ATTOiiNEY Filed Oct. 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 PHIL/P M N/(1 INVENTOR WITNESS:

ATTORNEY Patented July 14, 1 931 ETATEQ rnrmr WARNICK, OF JERSEY I JERSEY CASING FOE SHADE Application filed. Gctober 2-0, 153G. Serial No. 490,918.

This invention relates to window shades or screens and particularly to casings therev k at the top and providing bearings for roller, includes in a single piece of material a plurality of the walls of the casing for receiving the roller, and, in another piece of material, a closure wall, the latter being attachable to the first walls, subsequent to insertion of the roller, for housing the same in closed condition, this being to secure another object of the invention.

as the casing is open at the top, and attachable at its opposite ends to the frame structure of a window, a further object is to utilize the said structure for closing the open top, so as to completely house the shade roller. But in order to render the latter easily operative, the front and bottom walls are spaced apart to operatively accommodate the shade.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be hereinafter specifically pointed out or will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

lVith the above indicated objects in View, the invention resides in certain novel constructions and combinations and arrangement of parts, clearly described in the following specification and fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which latter show embodiments of the invention as at present preferred. 7

In said drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing a pair of easing sections in spaced relation;

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of an assembled casing;

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic plan view of the material of the casing sections;

Fig. i is a fragmentary elevational view of a window in which the new casing is installed; I

5 is a vertical sectional view of the structure shown in Fig. 4; and

Big. 6 shows a retaining plate in perspective. v c

Similar num rals refer to similar parts throughout the several Views.

Struck out of or otherwise formed from "able sheet metahthe casing includes a front section which provides a front wall 10, bottom walls 11, and opposed end walls 12 and 13 on which'are outwardly turned i 14; and 15. These end walls are pro vi d with bosses 16-and 17, in which are central apertures, as shown, for receiving the usual terminals of a roller 18; and as these bosses have also therein opposed aper euros 19, 20, 21, 22 for receiving pins to hold the said terminals against revolution, the

shade 23 of the structure is windable or unwindable. said roller being revolvable relative to its terminals.

In order to assure accurate election of the casing the ends thereof are provided with tabs 24, 25, which are turned inwardly to form stops for the bottom 11. These ends also; carry cars 26, 2 7, 28, 29, in which are apertures, as shown, for receiving fastening elements, and whereby the casing is attachable to the frame structure 30 of a window,

an additional part 81 of which forms a top cover for the casing. The roller may be placed within the casing before attachin the latter to the window frame, or said rolls? may be inserted or removed subsequent to attachment of the casing. the rear section or wall 32 having inwardly turned flanges 33, 34 thereon, which slidably embrace the flanges 14, 15. p

The rear wall includes an inwardly turned portion which, in the assembled position of the casing, is disposed in alignment with and spaced from the bottom, so that a slot 36 thereby provided serves to accommodate the depending portion of the shade 23. The rear wall is preferably provided with in-'' wardly turned or finishing flanges 37, 38; the respective bottom and front walls with flanges 39, 40, and the end walls with flanges 41 42.

lo hold the shade in the extended position, a retaining plate 43, having an attaching slot 44 therein, is carried on the frame structure of the window; and in order to prevent the shade 23, which is disposed in rear of the movable window structure 45, from completely winding into the casing, said shade has on the lower terminal thereof a strip of material 416. The strip engages the bottom of the casing at the slot 36.

The hereinabove described construction admits of considerable modification without departing from the invention; therefore, it

completing the casing, which latter is open at the top.

2. A window shade roller casing consisting of a single piece of material having a bottom wall, a front wall, opposed end walls having flanges thereon, bearings provided in said latter walls for a roller, and another piece of material forming a rear wall, said rear wall being terminally embraced by said flanges and spaced from said bottom wall for receiving the shade of a roller.

3. A window shade roller casing consisting of a single piece of material having a bottom wall, a front wall, opposed end walls having flanges thereon, stops provided on said end walls for engaging said first wall, bearings formed in said end walls for a roller, and another piece of material forming a rear wall and being spaced from said bottom wall for receiving the shade of a roller, said second piece of material including terminalflanges for embracing said first flanges.

4. An attachable window shade roller casing consisting of a single piece of material having a bottom wall, a front wall, opposed end walls having outwardly turned flanges thereon, stops provided on said end walls for engaging said bottom wall to facilitate erection of the casing, bearings provided on said end walls for the terminals of a roller, ears formed on said end walls for attaching the casing to a window structure, another piece of material forming a rear wall and spaced from said bottom wall to accommodate the shade of a roller, and outwardly signature.

PHILIP WVARNICK. 

